Need 'Satisfaction'? Britney And Devo Have Versions In Stores This Week

05/19/2000 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(5/19/00, 3 p.m. ET) - As fate would have it, two versions of the Rolling Stones classic "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" have arrived in stores this week -- a new version by Britney Spears, found on her highly anticipated second album, Oops!. . .I Did It Again, and a previously issued take from New Wave heroes Devo from its new two-disc career retrospective, Pioneers Who Got Scalped (An Anthology).

Devo's version was originally featured on the band's breakthrough 1978 debut album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Back then, the members of the band had to play the song for the Stones' Mick Jagger before they could get permission to include it. Devo keyboardist Jerry Casale told LAUNCH that the event took place at Jagger's lawyer's office in New York City.

"He was drinking wine, and it was in the afternoon and he was already kind of bombed, and he sat there for about 30 seconds and we thought, 'Oh, he doesn't like it.' And then he got up and started dancing around," Casale recalled. "And then he put his wine down on the mantle and he started dancing around full-throttle. And he goes, 'I like it, I like it.'"

Casale added, "We were really, really flattered, and then we realized the lawyer told him that Devo was about to go on Saturday Night Live and maybe he should say yes because we would make him more money with his song."

Casale had yet to hear Spears's new, dance-pop version of the song, but joked about the prospects. "Oh my God, I can't wait to see the choreography on that," he quipped.

-- Neal Weiss and Craig Rosen, Los Angeles

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